Here’s how many calories a 150 pound person normally burns up in 30 minutes of exercise:

Sport / CaloriesMarathon Running 590Vigorous Racquet Ball 510Rowing (peak effort) 600Swimming (crawl stroke)300Jogging 300Tennis (fast game) 265Chopping Wood 265Cycling (10 mph)225Golfing (without a cart)150Walking (3.5 mph)150Bowling 120Some
weight loss authorities believe that our bodies use fat to dilute
toxins. As an infrared heat sauna is an unsurpassed expeller of toxins,
it is also a great way to get rid of any fat our bodies are using to
dilute toxins we are storing.

Beauty:

Our infrared sauna is excellent for increasing blood circulation to the skin, which is essential for beautiful, youthful, glowing skin!A new"inner Glow"as the skin is free of accumulated dirt and dry skin cells, due to deep cleansing of impurities!Helps acne, eczema, psoriasis, burns and many other skin lesions or cuts.

Open wounds heal quicker with reduced scarring.

Removes roughness, leaving skin baby smooth and soft again.

Firms and improves skin tone and elasticity.

Scars on Skin:

Scars
fully formed, even keloids, may be gradually softened. Burns and other
wounds or incisions may heal with significantly reduced scarring.

Cellulite:

Cellulite
is a gel-like substance made up of fat, water and wastes which are
trapped in pockets below the skin. An infrared sauna can assist this
condition, as profuse sweating helps clear this form of unwanted debris
from the body. European Beauty Specialists confirm: a sauna will greatly speed any anti-cellulite program! Due
to at least twice the depth of heat penetration into cellulite combined
with up to 10 times the level of heating in these tissues your infrared
sauna can be significantly more effective than any conventional sauna.

Relieve Pain:

Effective for arthritis, back pain, muscle spasm, headache, etc.

Injuries:

Radiant
heat helps with sprains, strains, arthritis, muscle spasm and pain. If
you are an athlete, your infrared sauna is all good news. It allows
oxygen debt to be repaid more quickly. That’s likely to lead to improved
and quicker healing of sprains and muscle pain for you!

Runners:

Your
infrared sauna is the perfect solution for keeping up your
cardiovascular fitness while avoiding a run on a difficult weather day –
days you may want to just skip a workout or when you need to rest to
allow an injury to heal. Also, your infrared sauna is great for warming
up before stretching or staring any vigorous activity. You simply get in
your infrared sauna with your clothes on and allow the infrared rays to
pour right through your clothing until you just begin to break a sweat.
Now you are pre-warmed for stretching, skiing, running in cold
conditions, etc. For the maximal stretching benefit from this system you
will need a 40-minute sauna before your stretching. Research indicates
that stretching after a 40-minute sauna session should produce a 1-2%
permanent increase in your flexibility. Even one 20-minute session may
create temporary increase in your flexibility of up to 10%. As a
warm-up, your infrared sauna should help to prevent injuries and enhance
your ability to stay with your training program or enjoy any outdoor
activity. Your infrared sauna is also great cold weather post-activity
warm-up. Especially for any frostbitten areas.

Relaxation & Enjoyment:

Remove stress in the comfortable warm temperature with a fresh air vent for easy breathing.

Outstanding Caloric Consumption and Weight Control:In
Guyton’s Textbook of Medical Physiology, we find that producing one
gram of sweat requires 0.586 kcal. The JAMA citation referred to above
goes on to state that, "A moderately conditioned person can easily sweat
off 500 gms. In a sauna, consuming nearly 300 kcal- the equivalent of
running 2-3 miles. A heat-conditioned person can easily sweat off
600-800-kcal with no adverse effects. While the weight of the water loss
can be regained by dehydration with water, the calories consumed will
notbe." Since an infrared sauna helps generate two to three times
the sweat produced in a hot-air sauna, the implications for increased
caloric consumption are quite impressive. Assuming "a sauna" as
mentioned in JAMA, to last for 30 minutes, some interesting comparisons
may be drawn. Two of the highest calorie output forms of exercise are
rowing and marathon running. Peak output on a rowing machine or during a
marathon run burns about 600 calories in 30 minutes. Your infrared
sauna can, thus, play a pivotal role in both weight control and
cardiovascular conditioning. This would be easily valuable for those who
don’t exercise and those who can’t exercise, yet want effective weight
control and fitness maintenance program and the benefits that regular
exercise can contribute to such a program.

"Medical
practitioners make use of Infrared Radiant Heat to Treat sprains,
bursitis, peripheral vascular diseases, arthritis, and muscle pain…"
according to the McGraw/Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.

The following is summarized from Therapeutic Heat and Cold, 4th Edition,
ED. Justus F. Lehmann M.D., Williams and Wilkins, Chapter 9 or
concluded from the data therein. Generally it is accepted that heat
produces the following desirable therapeutic effects:

It increases the extendibility of collagen tissues.

Tissues
heated to 45C and then stretched exhibit a non-elastic residual
elongation of about 0.5 – 0.9% that persists after the stretch is
removed which does not occur in these same tissues when stretched at
normal tissue temperatures. Thus 20 stretching sessions can produce a
10-18% increase in length in tissues so heated and stretched.

This
effect would be especially valuable in working with ligaments, joint
capsules, tendons, fasciae, and synovium that have become scarred,
thickened or contracted.

Such stretching at 45C
caused much less weakening in stretched tissues for a given elongation
that a similar elongation produced at normal tissue temperatures.

The
experiments cited clearly showed that low-force stretching can produce
significant residual elongation when heat is applied together with
stretching or range-of –motion exercises, which is also sager than
stretching tissues at normal tissue temperatures.

This
safer stretching effect is crucial in properly training competitive
athletes so as to minimize their "down" time from injuries.

It decreases joint stiffness directly.

There
was a 20% decrease in stiffness at 45ºC as compared with 33ºC in
rheumatoid finger joints, which correlated perfectly to both subjective
and objective observation of stiffness.Any stiffened joint and thickened connective tissues should respond in a similar fashion.

It relieves muscle spasms.

Muscle
spasms have long been observed to be reduced through the use of heat,
be they secondary to underlying skeletal, joint, or neuropathological
conditions.This result is possibly produced by the combined effect
of heat on both primary and secondary afferents from spindle cells and
from its effects on Golgi tendon organs.The effects produced by each
of these mechanisms demonstrated their peak effect within the
therapeutic temperature range obtainable with radiant heat.

It produces pain relief.

Pain may be relieved via the reduction of attendant or secondary muscle spasms.

Pain
is also at times related to ischemia due to tension or spasm which can
be improved by the hyperemia that heat-induced vasodilatation produces,
thus breaking the feedback loop, in which the ischemia leads to further
spasm and then more pain.

Heat has been
shown to reduce pain sensation by direct action on both free-nerve
ending s in tissues and on peripheral nerves. In one dental study,
repeated heat applications led finally to abolishment of the whole nerve
responsible for pain arising from dental pulp.

Heat
may both lead to increased endorphin production and a shutting down of
the so-called "spinal gate" of Melzach and Wall, each of which can
reduce pain.

It increases blood flow.

Heating
of one area of the body produces reflex-modulated vasodilations in
distant-body areas, even in the absence of a change in core body
temperature’ i.e. heat one extremity and the contra lateral extremity
also dilates; heat a forearm and both lower extremities dilate; heat the
front of the trunk and the hand dilates.

Heating of muscles produces an increased blood flow level similar to that seen during exercise.

Temperature
elevation produces an increase in blood flow and dilation directly in
capillaries, arterioles and venuies, probably through direct action on
their smooth muscles. The release of bradykinin, released as a
consequence of sweat-gland activity, also produces increased blood flow
and vasodilatation.

Whole-body hypothermia, with a
consequent core temperature elevation, further induces vasodilatation
via a hypothalamic-induced decrease in sympathetic tone on the
arteriovenous anastomoses. Vasodilatation is also produced by axonal
reflexes and by reflexes that change vasomotor balance.

It assists in resolution of inflammatory infiltrates, edema and exudates.

The
increased peripheral circulation provides the transport needed to help
evacuate the edema which can help end inflammation, decrease pain and
help speed healing.

Blood Circulation

All
of the following ailments may be associated to some degree with poor
circulation and, thus, may respond well to the increased peripheral
dilation associated with FIR application:

Arthritis

Sciatica

Backaches

Hemorrhoids

Nervous Tension

Diabetes

Over-tired Muscles

Strained Muscles

Varicose Veins

Neuritis

Bursitis

Rheumatism

Fatigue

Upset Stomach

Stretch Marks

Menstrual Cramps

Leg and Decubitus Ulcers failing to heal using conventional approaches

Post-operative
Edema - treatment with infrared has been so successful that hospital
stays were reported to have been reduced by 25%.